Douglas Kirkland Quotes

I have to say, my celebrity is not a big factor in my life. Once in a while someone takes my picture. But I'm not exactly one of the four girls everyone's chasing at the moment.

Now I'm seen by more people in one episode than I was in 20 years of theatre and movies. It's gratifying to have an impact on 25 million people a night, but I can say goodbye to my lunch-pail life as a working actor. I'm scared I might be a celebrity.

You know, one of the biggest thrills I have is when famous people recognize me from Taxi.

It's hard to bury your head in Los Angeles. People come up to you and say, 'Hey, I saw your picture on a bus.' It's tricky: You're excited by the possibilities, but you don't want to get too crazy.

In our society, everyone wants to be a celebrity overnight.

It's not like I'm that wildly famous that it's disrupted my lifestyle in some way.

People will come up to me everywhere and say, 'Ah, I saw you on 'Larry King,' and, 'Ah, I saw you on 'Oprah.' And it's really nice, and a lot of people say, 'Is it a pain?' And I say 'No.' And it's not annoying.

The star thing, the celebrity thing, is new to me.

There is this power that comes with being famous.

I know that everyone wants to know about 'Downton Abbey,' but the truth is that it was only a few days out of my life. Still, you play a distinctive part on a hit series, and everyone suddenly knows who you are. Isn't it crazy how this business works?

I get recognised in town a bit; I wouldn't say it's hindering my life in any way.

It took being famous to make me cool, which, by the way, I never forgot.

I was getting a lot of hassles from the public. Everybody recognized me.

That's the thing with celebrities: the media can't ignore them.

Famous is celebrityism, and I don't want that... I know that I'm not that. Everybody knows who you are. I can't imagine living that life, but I don't think I consider myself famous.

I used to be seriously incognito - without wanting to be. The effect of the magazines, television, billboards - they've changed my whole life in terms of having to deal with being a, quote, star.

My dream was to be a celebrity, to be on TV like Bob Hope was.

I think you can become dependent on fame and be as known as you want to be, you know?

It thrills me to get the chance to have my face on 'Inside Edition.'

I don't want to be a celebrity. I never, ever did.

Winning 'I'm A Celeb' has massively affected my love life because it's very rare to meet someone that doesn't recognise me now because the jungle is so big.

Everybody wants to be on the front cover of 'People' and 'Rolling Stone.'

This celebrity thing has been interesting. It's hard to get used to, because I don't see myself as a celebrity.

What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.

Olympic Gold changed me and my life dramatically. I became a celebrity overnight and people see me as a famous skater, not a real person.